Posted by
Flatlanders on Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:39:29 AM
Cap and Trade BS
It seems to me that all this BS (Bureaucratic Scatology) about Cap and Trade is about taking something (CO2) that was everyone's right to use, declaring it to be theirs and selling it. Under the 5th Takings Clause, anyone who has their property taken needs to be compensated -- including their right to use their CO2 as they wish.
Another way to look at this is extension of common trespassing laws. If you have some property and continue to allow other's to use it without restriction, it becomes public property -- however, this doesn't mean that the public can then take that property and sell it to someone while prohibiting others to use it as they always have. Common law is things in the public domain, such as C02, remain in public domain and isn't open for sale.
What's next? Cap and trade H20, 02, gravity?
In other words, any way one logically and legally looks at it, the whole idea of cap and trading C02 is just full of BS.